Covid aid: Which companies the billions go to

So far, it has been kept secret which companies the aid went to. An EU directive requires more transparency. The airline, monastery, chamber of agriculture and ÖVP party academy were financed. An analysis.

Wien. “No matter what the cost,” said Chancellor Sebastian shortly before the first lockdown in March 2020. Since then, tens of billions of aid have been flowing. Until a few days ago, it was quite unclear to whom the Federal Covid-19 Financing Agency (Cofag) would distribute them. The information was simply refused: “Data protection”. Due to an EU transparency directive, Austria now had to publish at least aid over 100,000 euros. “Die Presse” and the ORF worked their way through thousands of data sets.

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